The arms of Mary and Don Kellett are aching for their son Peter these days because on Aug. 20 their sweet child, age 6-and- a-half, was called home to God. He is now wrapped in the arms of the Holy Family.
274 Catholics from archdiocese attend largest March for Life ever
It took a 26-hour bus ride, a student conference and a national march of more than 400,000 people for Nicholas Vance, 14, to realize the pro-life movement is more alive than he previously thought — much more alive.
After a send-off Mass at the Cathedral of St. Paul Jan. 21, youth and chaperones from around the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis loaded buses headed for the national March for Life Jan. 24 in Washington D.C.
For first time, archdiocese to send group of youth to D.C. for March for Life
When 14-year-old Aly May of St. Jude of the Lake in Mahtomedi goes to Washington, D.C., for the annual March for Life, she will present a powerful witness for life.
The annual Prayer Service for Life provides a moment of quiet reflection before the March for Life to the State Capitol on the anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court decision in 1973 to legalize abortion.
Kristen and Matthews Grant, both converts to Catholicism and members of Holy Childhood in St. Paul, have attended almost every Prayer Service for Life at the Cathedral of St. Paul since they moved here in 2003.
Archbishop John Nienstedt will present the Champions for Life awards during a lunch that begins at 11:30 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 21, at the University Club in St. Paul. Father Andrew Cozzens of the St. Paul Seminary School of Divinity will give a keynote address.
